Muskingum University celebrates 175 years

Muskingum University will celebrate its 175th anniversary this April. Since its doors opened in 1837, the university has witnessed triumph and sadness through the eyes of the campus and the world. From the day it was founded in 1837, Muskingum has inaugurated 20 presidents and has been the alma mater to several significant alums that have gained achievements in various fields from entertainment to technology. New academic buildings have been constructed, while Paul Hall, one of Muskingum's first buildings, whose history dates back 139 years, is still in existence. In 2009, Muskingum College said goodbye to the seniors and welcomed in the first freshmen into what is now called Muskingum University.

1837- Muskingum College founded

1844- Samuel F. B. Morse dispatches the first telegraph message from Washington D.C. to Baltimore

1865- Robert E. Lee surrenders to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, effectively ending the Civil War

1876- Telephone invented by Alexander Graham Bell

1894- First edition of the Black & Magenta published

1899- Muskingum football team formed

1903- Wright brothers make first flight

1904- J. Knox Montgomery is inaugurated as president

1912- Brown Chapel opens

1920- Construction is completed on Montgomery Hall

1927- Charles Lindbergh embarks on the first-ever nonstop flight from New York to Paris

1928- Cambridge Hall opens

1931- J. Knox Montgomery, the "Father of Muskingum College," dies

1935- Construction of what is now called John Glenn Gymnasium is completed